Kentucky Derby 2026 Betting Preview
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Sportsline Horse Race Experts Michelle Yu, Jeff Hochman, and Gene Menez break down everything you need to know for the 152nd Kentucky Derby! They give their betting strategies, longshots, best bets, and MORE!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary, |
| 0:09.1 | and today we're talking all things, Kentucky Derby. |
| 0:11.9 | It's the Run for the Roses, the first Saturday in May. |
| 0:13.9 | We call it the most exciting two minutes in sports, but right now we're about to go a little bit longer |
| 0:17.9 | than that as we dive really deep into the Derby. |
| 0:25.0 | Joining me this afternoon is Jeff Hockman and Gene Menez, guys. |
| 0:27.0 | Are you ready to talk Derby to me? |
| 0:30.8 | Oh, so ready, Michelle. |
| 0:33.3 | This is my favorite day of the year. I long for this more than I long for my birthday, Christmas, everything. |
| 0:38.9 | And I especially today, can't wait to debate dosage with Jeff. |
| 0:44.3 | Wait, wait, I noticed, Gene, you're not wearing the secretariat shirt that I had to buy you from the one time that we competed and you kicked my butt. |
| 0:52.4 | I didn't want to rub it in. |
| 0:53.7 | How about two weeks for the preekness? |
| 0:56.1 | We'll do that. I'll be looking forward to that. How about you, Jeff? You excited for today? |
| 1:01.9 | I'm so pumped up, Michelle and Gina be with you. Can't wait to get into it. You know, the derby stands out |
| 1:07.8 | from, you know, from other races know don't put pressure on yourself to win |
| 1:12.5 | only risk what you can comfortably afford to lose have fun with it and and you know the derby is |
| 1:20.0 | is unlike any other race 20 horses huge crowds you could be on the best horse, and still, that horse can freak out in the |
| 1:31.0 | paddock and you have no idea how they're going to react come race day. But yeah, I'm looking |
| 1:34.8 | forward to getting into it. All right. So big race day coming up. I mean, how much prep are you guys |
| 1:40.8 | doing? We've, we've, I feel like we've looked at this field now for a couple of |
| 1:44.3 | weeks, but every day, there's changes. There's new things coming up. There's new horses entering |
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